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Show THE RICH COUNTY NEWS, RANDOLPH, UTAH bnt bd felt that they were leaving an Imprint on the very fiber of his soul. He knew one thing. He knew he coaid never forget this first introduction to the mountain night. The whole scene moved him in strange, deep ways in which he had never been stirred before; It left him exultant and. In deep wells of his nature far below the usual currents of excitement, a little excited ( s smells and sounds, ?- too. Then both of them were startled out of their reflections by the clear, unmistakable sound of footsteps on the ridge. Both of them turned, and Lennox laughed softly In the darkness. he said. I My daughter, knew she wouldnt be afraid to comV Dan could see only Snowbirds otft-lin-e at first, just her shadow against the moonlit hillside. His glasses were none too good at long range. And possibly, when she came within range, tlie first thing that he noticed about - -- .0 Dans SYNOPSIS. Warned by his phy Biclan that he has not more than six months to live, Falling sits despondently on a park bench, wondering where he should spend those six months. A friendly squirrel practically decides the matter for him. His blood Is pioneer blood, and he decides to end his days in the forests of Oregon. Memories of his grandfather and a deep love for all things of the wild help him in reaching a decision. In a large southern Oregon city he meets people who had known and loved his grandfather, a famous frontiersman. He makes his home with Silas Lennox, a typical westerner. The only other members of the household are Lennoxs son, "Bill," and daughter, Snowbird. Their abode Is many miles from civilization," in the Umpqua divide, and there Failing plans to live out the short span of life which he has been told is his. His extreme weakness in the face of even a slight exertion convinces him that the doctor had made a correct diagnosis of his case. From the first Failings health shows a marked improvement, and In the companionship of Lennox and his son and daughter he fits Into the woods life as if he had been born to it. By quick thinking and a remarkable display of nerve" ha saves Lennox's life and his own when they are attacked by a mad coyote. Lennox declares he Is a reincarnation of his grandfather, Dan Failing I, whp.se fame as a woodsman is a household word. 0- c CHAPTER III Continued. Of course Taut sit down now, anyway. Im sorry that Snowbird isnt here. Snowbird Is " daughter. My boy, she can make n biscuit! Thats not her name, ef comse, but weve always called her that. She got tired of keeping house and is working this summer. Poor My Eill has to keep house for her,- and no wonder hes eager to take the stock down to the lower levels. I only wish he hadnt brought em up this spring at all ; Ive lost dozens from the - appetite was not as a rule particularly good. But evidently the long ride had affected him. He simply didnt have the moral courage to refuse win n the elder Lennox heaped his plate. Good heavens, I cant eat all that, he said, as it was passed to him. But the others laughed and told him to take heart. He took heart It was a singular thing, but at that first bite his sudden confidence in his gustatory ability almost overwhelmed him. So he cut himself a bite of the tender steak fully half as generous as the bites that Bill was consuming across the table. And its first flavor simply filled him with delight What is this meat? he asked. Ive certainly tasted it before. Ill bet a few dollars that you havent, if youve lived all your life in tlie Middle West Lennox answered. Maybe youve got what the scientists call an Inherited memory of it. Its the kind of meat your grandfather used to live on venison. Soon after dinner Lennox led him out of the house for hjs first glimpse of the hills In the darkness. They walked together out to the gate, across the first of the wide pastures where, at certain seasons, Lennox kept his cattle; and at last they d came out upon the ridge. The moon was just rising. They could see it casting a curious glint over the very tips of the pines. But it couldnt get down between them. They stood too close, too tall and thick for that. And for a moment, Dans only sensation was one of silence. You have to stand still a moment, to really know anything, Lennox told ' tree-covere- him. They both stood still. Dan was as motionless as that day In the park, long weeks before, when the squirrel had climbed on his shoulder. The first effect was a sensation that the silence coyotes. But a coyote cant kill cattle It can if It has hydrophobia, a common tiling in the varmints this time of year. But as I say, Bill will take the stock down next season, and then Snowbirds work will be through, and shell come back here. Then shes down in the valley? Far from it Shes a mountain girl if one ever lived. Perhaps you dont know the recent policy of the forest service to hire women when they can be obtained. It was a policy started in war times and kept up now because it is economical and efficient. She and a girl from college have a eabln not five miles from here on old Bald mountain, and theyre doing lookout duty. Dan wondered intensely what look-gYou see, Dan, duty might be. Lennox said In explanation, the government loses thousands of dollars every year by forest fire. A fire can be stopped easily if it is seen soon after It starts. But let it burn awhile, in this dry season, and its a terror a wall of flame that races through the forests and can hardly be stopped. And maybe you dont realize how enormous this region is literally hunStanding in the Shadows, He Simply dreds of miles across. Were the last Watched Her. outpost there aie four cabins, if you can find them, in the first seventy was deepening around them. It wasnt miles back to town. So they have to really true. It was simply that he put lookouts on, the high points, and had become aware of the little connow theyre coming to the use of airtinuous sounds of whlcli usually he planes so they can keep even a better was unconscious, and they tended to watch. Snowbird and a ' girl friend accentuate the hush of the night. He from college got jobs this summer as knew, just as ail mountaineers' know, lookouts all through the forest servthat the wilderness about him was ice they are hiring women for the stirring and pulsing with life. Some work.' They are more vigilant than of the sounds were quite clear an men, less inclined to take chances, occasional stir of a pebble or the crack and work cheaper. These two girls of a twig, and some, like the faintest 'have a cabin near a spring, and they twitching of leaves in the brush not cook their own food, and are making ten feet distant, could only be guessed what is big wages hi the mountains. at. What is making the sounds? he I'm rather hoping shell drop over for asked. a few minutes tonight He didnt know It, at the time, but Good Lord does she travel over Lennox turned quickly toward him. It these hills in the darkness? The mountaineer laughed a de- wasnt that tbe question had surprised lighted sound that came somewhat the mountaineer. Rather it was the curiously from the bearded lips of the tone In which Daw bad spoken. It was etern. dark man. Dan, Ill swear shes perfectly cool, perfectly afraid of nothing that walks the face The one right close Is a chipmunk. f the earth and it Isnt because she hasnt had experience either. Shes a I dont know what the others are; no dead shot with a- - pistol, for one thing. one ever does know. Perhaps ground Shes physically strong, and every squirrels, or rabbits, or birds, and muscle Is hard as nails. She used to maybe one of those harmless old black have Shag, too th best dog in all bears who is curious about the house. Shes a mountain And tell me can you smell anythese mountains. ; whoever wins her has thing tell you I girl, Good Lord, Lennox I con smell all The got to be able to tame her! kinds of things. mountaineer laughed again. Some men cant. No one ,The cll to supper came then, and can"I'm glad. woods if he cant smell. the mountain of enjoy first is sight Dan goi There were potatoes, newly Part of the smells are of flowers, nnd food. were part of balsam, nnd God only knows dug, mountain vegetables that a steak of peculiar v. lint the others are. They are just cold, and crisp the wildc no s great bowl of purple berShape, and Dsn "' o"l nnrceive the ries to b- - -- ulen with sugar and cream. ut . 1 her was her stride. knew didnt The girls he walk in quite that free, She took almost a man-siz- e strong way. step; and jet it was curious that she did not seem ungraceful. Dan had a distinct impression that she was floating down to him on the moonlight She seemed to come with such unutAnd then he terable smoothness. heard her call lightly through the darkness. The sound gave him a distinct sense of surprise, florae way, he hadnt associated a voice like this with a mountain girl; he had supposed that there would be so many harshenlng influences in this wild place. Yet the tone was as clear and full as a trained singers. It was not a high voice; and yet it seemed simply brimming, as a cup brims with wine, with the rapture of life. It was a voice too, wholly unaffected and sincere, and wholly without embarrassment. Then she came close, and Dan saw the moonlight on her face. And so it came about, whether In dreams or wakefulness, he could see nothing else for many hours to come. The girl who stood in the moonlight had health. She was simply vibrant with health. It brought a light to her eyes, and a color to her cheeks, and shimmer to her moonlit hair. It brought curves to her body, and iife-'an- strength and firmness to her limbs, nnd the grace of a deer to her Whether she had regular features or not Dan would have been unable to state. He didnt even notice. They werent Important when health $Lu ttevas clearest or.e?faPn,e.n ber Uff 8 a Sirl's a - jouW gds ure white reasonabte-pritfe- treas-IXh- Bq a Lieutenant in tho United States Navq one-p- ease I lie way. BOYD PARK JEWELERS BOYD PARK BLDG WASP THE had a glory about her that was U. S. S. Wasp al- most modern. She flitted into being in April, 1814, and buzzed out during the fall of the same year. There was a first Wasp in the war of 1812. This second one was smaller but better built. Her 509 tons made her little more than an overgrown yacht. 32 She was armed with 20 sawed-of- f pounders and a pair of lean Cutting loose all together she could hurl the tremendous broadside of 315 pounds of metal or about the shell! weight of one modern Captain Johnnie Blakeley took her out on May 1, 1814. He wasted no time but headed straight for the English channel. In six weeks he had cleaned up enough prizes to retire on a chlck-efarm. But Johnnie was not the retiring kind or we shouldnt have named one of our late destroyers after him. On June 28 H. M. S. Reindeer hove in sight With Laplaiidlsh pertinacity the Wasp perched on the Reindeers haunch and stung her venomously. But the Reindeer was known as the Pride of Portsmouth, so she bucked and kicked and fetched other vicious efforts to dislodge her adversary. Her skipper Capt. William Manners, leaped into the rigging and gallantly promulgated a boarding party over the rail of the Wasp, which had come along-sideD s. Followed a unanimous and successful prohibition movement amongst the Americans. Bill Manners and 67 of his crew and officers were killed or wounded. The ships clerk was the only officer left to surrender. Thence the Wasp sailed to France to recoup. She did it so well that soon was present. Yet there was nothing after leaving port she attacked a conn of the coarse or bold or voluptuous voy of ten vessels escorted by the Armada. With about her. She was just a slender sentimental partiality she cut out the girl, perhaps twenty years jof age, and brig Mary, captured valuable military weighing even less than the figure oc" stores and escaped. casionally to be read tn the health With her blood still she fell in And up magazines for girls of her height. she was fresh and cool beyond all with H. M. S. Avon. After a running fight of two hours in the darkness of words to tell. And Dan had no delusions about night the enemy surrendered. The her attitude toward him. For a Tong Avon's mainsail fell over her after and blanketed their fire. instant she turned her keen, young guns ' At the moment the Britisher sure eyes to his white, thin face; and it became abundantly evident rendered several more of the enemy that beyond a few girlish speculations hove up over the horizon, Capt. she felt no interest In him. After a Blakeley prudently beat it On Sept 21 the brig Atlanta was single moment of rather strained, polite conversation with Dan just taken. She was the fifteenth prize. October 9 the Wasp fell In with a enough to satisfy her Idea of the conventions she began a thrilling girl- Swedish brig and was reported for the hood tale to her father. And she was last time. She was never seen nor still telling it when they reached the heard of again. 74-gu- house. Don held a chair for her in front of the fireplace, and she took it with en- DEVIATION CANT vouch for this tale. I woultire naturalness. He was careful to 1 dnt if I could. If theres any vouchwas the where it its at put firelight to be done a sailor must save it for ing height. He wanted to see its effect on his own tales. To the nautical raconthe flushed cheeks, the soft dark hair. And then, standing in the shadows, he teur Truth Is an abortion of scientific calculated to put the bug on simply watched her. With the eye of Intrigue an artist he delighted in her gestures, romance and adventure. It is true, however, that a compass her rippling enthusiasm, her utter irneedle is of weak and vacillating charall of time repressible girlishness that acter. Let so much as a bally hunk of had not years enough to kill. Iron approach the binnacle Bill stood watching her, his hands d bowl our and guide bein comhis pockets, evidently a deep comes a creature of decidedly easy virpanion of the best. Her father gazed at her .with amused tolerance. And tue. The needle abandons its straight nortfi-sout- h line and subDan he didnt know In just what way and narrow to the mits charms of a baser magnetic he did look at her. And he didnt have time to decide. In less than fifteen metal. Deviation Is the name of the needles minutes, and wholly without warning, she sprang up from her chair and sin. On a steel vessel each compass started toward the door. points out of true. Though magnets Good Lord! Dan breathed. If are arranged about it to compensate you make such sudden motions as that for action of surrounding metal, there ril have heart failure. Where are is always a small error. This error is i deviation, you going now? Back to my watch, she answered, Vitally Important to a skipper is it her tone wholly lacking the personal to know the amount of error. Also note which men have learned to ex- must he be familiar with what nearby pect in the voices of women. And an beams and braces cause most of it instant later the three of them 3aw For Instance one of the Canadian her retreating shadow as she vanished patrols so the tale goes had a wooden cargo boom secured Just forward among the pines. Dan had to be helped to bed. The of her bridge. The heel fitting on the long ride had been too hard on his boom was of steel. Bo near the steershattered lungs; and nerves and body ing compass was this piece that whew collapsed an 'instant after the door a gale swept the forecastle clear, takwas closed behind the departing girl. ing boom and all, there was some 12 He laughed weakly and begged their degrees change in the compass error. Perhaps It was youth, or maybe oppardon ; and the two men were really very gentle. They told him it was timism in the captain that kept him their own fault for permitting him to from worrying. Or It may have been overdo. Lennox himself blew out the that he was bound up to Sydney, his candle In the big, cold bedroom. home port. Or it may even have been that he was going to see his wife. Some sailors are that way. Tlie next installment of At any rate he kept on In spite of The Voice of the Pack imrain nnd fog and snow and sleet. No moon, nor sun, nor stars to guide him. parts to Dan Failing tha exizt-enc- e of an organized band of Ills dead reckon1 rig had to do. outlaws. He crawled into a hole In the wall, which a harbor Is like In thick weather. And though It was late he went (TO BE CONTINUED.) low-cas- high-price- . She led him into a strange house and said strange things to strange people. His head whirled. He tried to remember if he had had more than one glass of grog at the landing. Ten minutes he sat in a kind of trance. Then someone mentioned St. Johns. He leaped to his feet. The boom the compass deviation ! he cried. Its Newfoundland Ive hit. They thought him crazy, but in fact it was his compass that had gone looney. He had missed Sydney by just three hundred miles! OLD STORY, AN NEWHOUSE HOTEL MOST MODERN HOTEL WEST OF CHICAGO 30 BON HOMME RICHARD yes. But I bet won her bat- didnt know she tle with a bucket! She was the flagship of our first J. P. who was known by foreigners as that pirate. John Paul Jones named her after the Almanac published by a certain B. Franklin. The latters influence in France made It possible for Americans to fit out a squadron of reprisal against the British. In the summer of 1779 five American crossed under Jones command. After painting the Scotch coast red they fell In with an English fleet. For rather obscure reasons only two ships chose to engage, H. M. S. Serapis and the U. S. S. Bon Homme Richard. The British was a first 2a te while the Richard was an old converted Indlaman. The Serapis could throw 600 pounds of projectiles to the Richards 444 pounds. Crews were of nearly equal size. At the first broadside the Richards burst and smeared big their crews along the decks or splattered them on the crossbeams overhead. Besides this disaster the swift Serapis cross Jones bow and raked him fore and aft, which in those days was as good as a home run In the ninth inning with three men on. At this point of the combat the Limey captain staged a famous incident by his fatuous Inquiry: Has your ship struck? To which, as every schoolI have boy knows, Jones replied: not yet begun to fight. So they went at it again. And they got all tangled np with each other. Finally they just hung together and drifted. Yankee riflemen in the tops drove the British crew below. British gunners between decks fired through the sides of their own vessel to puncture the enemys. Then came a Scot, n Yankee Scot, with a bucket He filled his bucket vlth bombs. He added a pinch of common combustibles. He slid out on the yardarm overhanging the Serapis. He threw a match into his backet dropped the bucket down the hatch beneath, and beat It. Followed a puff and a flame and a bang, a great big boom of a bang. This disaster took all the spunk out of the enemy. After a few boarding brawls the finish came. The Richard was sinking and on fire; her decks were gory and her sides like sieves. But she was saved; and John Paul Jones became the hero of two continents. MAIN STREET KMS 70 125 100 WA Bali bw Rmm FA Oat mrum $1.50; BaA-BaA-- 75lmFABa-0aipm$4- Tw. Tw. pm $100; $150; pm $3.Wh pm BaA-- Oat Bm VA Km WA Je( Tw. Hedqurtcn fa Cofe Utak, Stop arf pmt $3.50 pma $4.00 Iwwpmf $5.00 -- Ptpihr Fried S2.S9 pm pma $300 Tw Dung Ram Mato, Wjrowij, Ncnda people men-of-w- BATTLE STATIONS do you pick a man? his face yes. And figure sometimes. His actions mostly. His thoughts when you are sure they are his. But there is one more method. HOW Scientific, (.oiitciorr sill of Honest Dews General Manager Rooms Continental BanK LAKE C'T'i. 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Captain in conning tower, surgeon In sick bay, gunner at gun, engineer in engine room, and so on. All very pretty for a drill. But suppose the enemy actually is near. Or. It turns out that the hostile fleet is creeping just behind the horizon. Then its all hands stick to their stanshore. tions; They must not leave If powder Somehow the dock looked unfamilIs'out Nor if the other fellow is close Different Kinds of Hickory. . Twelve kinds of hickory are found iar. The street beyond curved the enough to take a pot shot pretty soon. Nor If destroyers might dart in under In the world, eleven of them indigewrong way. Certainly there was somecover of fog or darkness. Its stick to nous to the United States east of the thing queer about the lights. Suddenly he encountered a woman. stations for all hands. Rocky mountains, and one Mexican Broadsides are not bad. There Is Previous to the ice age, ex- It was his wife. 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